Two Manhattan hospitals, for instance, are collecting blood samples from pregnant women who say they were in the vicinity of the trade center on the morning of Sept. 11 or in the days afterward.
STREAM is run 50 times to put load onto the system and rule out general instabilities, and the last result is collected from each instance.
"Appreciation by the community" can be achieved by setting up a mechanism whereby information from the community is collected, through for instance exit interviews and discussions in the community.
Information on health care encounters (including in-patient, outpatient, emergency department, general practitioner, home care and respite care instances) will be collected from families in the intervention and control groups with bi-weekly telephone interviews.
These investigations have been described in detail elsewhere (25, 26 ), but in both instances cultures were collected from residents and staff (all residents and staff at facility G; all but 1 resident who refused and 3 staff members in the affected unit at facility B).
For instance, no indication was collected on the patterns of behaviour out of the two peak time zones.
In many instances, the data being collected goes beyond basic personal information.
Then the first 50 available instances of each expression are collected, generating a total number of 150 instances.
